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And everyone has the same 24h. And it is just their choice and will to either dedicate 30min to their well being or not. It is not about having less time. Just prioritizing the same 24h that everyone has differently. Everything else is just finding excuses which of course is much easier than changing your life.
Don’t know. But I am in the top 1% of this country regarding income as an engineer (staff/fellow level). I don’t work more than 32h-35h per week - actually I never have and was never expected to. Living and working in a sane society and country. I fanatically turn off work email or work msgs when not working. I am not available for no one. Not even the C-levels or any clients. I concentrate on me and my family. No need to be a slave to “commitments” that don’t mean a thing in the long run.
Less doomscrolling, less bing watching of dumb Netflix series. Sensible working hours. And a society that doesn’t demand constant reachability when being off work.
It is not a luxury. It is living with common sense.
Now we know why GitHub has a hard time with stability and reliability. Because of this AI slop BS inflicted on us by the Silicon Valley tech bros and all their followers.
Literally :rofl: here. About all the people panicking that they suddenly can’t work anymore. Come on, how did you work and develop three years ago without AI? If you can’t program or understand code without an LLM you should maybe switch careers and not call yourself engineers. In the meantime, I have never touched Claude, Copilot, or what not, and continue to write my low level code used in real engineering and manufacturing plants as well as science labs. And since most/all of this isn’t really working through/with AI (as some colleagues in the field have tried and miserably failed) I can increase my rates and have started to charge a good amount more from clients. As they can’t find people anymore that are willing to understand the problems and deliver working code. The people are busy trying to get AI work in the my field instead of doing the real work that is asked. Literally :rofl: on how AI makes me more money without having to use and touch it. If this continues as it does, I might be able to retire soon (40s) and go back to study physics as I did and maybe engage in some theoretical physics PHD (self financed).
First let the agent do everything and wrong. But why then continue to use the agent to analyze the problem? That would have been the time to stop using Claude.
And why use an agent at all? For some IaC terraform runs?
What is the problem nowadays that people rather prefer to use non-deterministic actions from an agent instead of the very deterministic cli invocations needed?
I guess these people don’t deserve better. Darwin Award winners.
From their repo:
“A reactive notebook for Python — run reproducible experiments, query with SQL, execute as a script, deploy as an app, and version with git. *All in a modern, AI-native editor.*
Why does it need to be in a “modern, AI-native editor”?
(Closing tab, flashing marimo out of brain)
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” (from a postapocalyptic novel by the author G. Michael Hopf)
Ha, best part is in the first paragraph:
in a bid to make its borders digital, which is in-line with developed countries like Australia.
lol. So England is not developed and compared to developed Australia. lol.
How to avoid the 737 Max? Fly only airlines that don’t have it. Luckily there are still a few around in Europe. Since the two fatal crashes I have avoided doing flights with 737s.
Good for them. And great of the Patagonia mgmt to give them off.
I am myself off - the company I work for gives us paid time off (not deducted from our paid vacation) from Dec 22 to January 8. Each year. Apart from our 35 days of PTO. Plus 4 days to attend school events. Apart from German public holidays. Oh, and we work less during the spring and summer months. We go down from 38 hours per week to 35. German engineering manufacturing company - 250 employees. Family owned - 5 generations.
Most senior software engineers don’t have servers in their rooms neither.
Everyone has 36 minutes to watch a video. Just skip bing watching Netflix.
Poor society we are part of, if everything needs to be consumed in 5 minute chunks.
One should also think and reflect about the content being presented. Grasp the ideas.
It is also about honoring the time the speaker put into the presentation preparing it.
Now everyone sees just layoffs again. But there are so many companies thriving and keeping their workforce. As they are in balance. And are also happy to grow at a smaller pace.
Not the heat, not the yoga, but “doing sports and moving” reduces depression.
So it could have been “bouldering may reduce depression” or even “squash may reduce depression”.
Why? 1) You move. 2) You can’t do social media at the same time.
tl;dr get out, move, stop sitting on the couch and stop social media.
Swimming in the Rhine river in Basel (Switzerland) has been possible for a long time and is even officially sanctioned by the city https://www.basel.com/en/activities-excursions/swimming-rhin...
One can also decide to just be a https://1x.engineer
And I thought this was about static test firings of their rocket engines…